The accession processed in 2005 includes research materials for Hugh Norwood's study entitled
Port Moresby Urban Villages and Squatter Settlements which documents population change and urban development in Papua New Guinea. Materials include aerial photographs, notes,
survey forms, and maps and are arranged alphabetically by village or settlement name.

ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 2009

The accession processed in 2009 contains 103 gelatin silver prints dating 1973-1978. The prints are aerial photographs of
the neighborhoods surrounding Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and are arranged alphabetically by settlement name. Norwood
used these images for his study
Port Moresby Urban Villages and Squatter Areas.

Biography

Hugh Norwood was educated in the late 1950s and early 1960s in economics, social and health administration, and town planning.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s he worked in Africa and later in New Zealand.

In 1975, he was appointed by the Papua New Guinea government to lead a team charged with preparing a national housing plan.
Norwood taught a course in land administration in the geography department at the University of Papua New Guinea and, in 1979,
taught at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Norwood took a leave of absence in 1982 to research his study on population change and urban growth in Port Moresby. His report
was published in 1984.